Reading Through: 35.2 Challenge Python For Data Science

If you just want the first n characters of the file (not n characters per line of the file), then you can just use; file.read()[:n] This will include any invisible or whitespace characters such as '\n'

file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt") n = int(input()) g=file.read()[:n] file.close() print(g) I think i had the join in there unnecessarily

CarrieForle FYI, file.read(n) will return n bytes of the file. Which in this particular case is ok (file uses default unicode type UTF-8), but could result in an issue if the unicode type in the file was larger. Also, just to be forthcoming, I'm not sure that the way I wrote it would give a different result if the unicode type was a larger type. At least not without doing some research and testing.

You iterated file.readlines(). You will get the list of strings. So don't use for loop, and use read instead. file.read(n)

file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt") n = int(input()) for i in file.readlines(): print(''.join(i[:n])) file.close()

Thanks all

Fan Mason what was your final code? Whats above doesnt seen to work. Thanks!

Thanks Fan Mason !!

file = open("/usercode/files/books.txt") #your code goes here n = int(input()) print(file.read()[:n]) file.close() I think this will work.)

N = int(input()) print(file.read(N))